Thank you so much for this post. I immediately recognized what I was feeling when RBG passed was exactly what I felt on the morning of the election. I did not know what emotion was -- likely, as you note, sheer anxiety and dread. I have not been so despondent since Nov 2016 with such an overwhelming inability to get out of bed in the …
Thank you so much for this post. I immediately recognized what I was feeling when RBG passed was exactly what I felt on the morning of the election. I did not know what emotion was -- likely, as you note, sheer anxiety and dread. I have not been so despondent since Nov 2016 with such an overwhelming inability to get out of bed in the morning, despite the outlandish parade of horrors we've been forced to witness. Thank you for saying that out loud because despite however much I believe I am healthy enough to validate my own emotions, new experiences like this make me question my own mental and emotional stability.
Your post is extremely incisive and I feel like reading it gave me the feeling of finding the word that has been at the tip of my tongue but could not verbalize. This is absolutely the end of a series of myths that I have unknowingly believed to be my reality, until 2016 poked the first hole in that dreamland. I have been living under the presumption that the GOP was answerable to democratic norms and that they would act in ways that hid their blatant disregard of the law so as not to be shunned by their base. I thought this country was different and that although Trump was dangerous, I naively kept assuming someone or something would stop him.
Which is why it is such a gut punch to see establishment Dems fail to fight on all of our behalves. They are still buying this myth and it is hard to feel that anyone actually has our backs.
Thank you again for putting this into words -- for whatever reason, it took a little bit of weight off my chest.
Thank you so much for this post. I immediately recognized what I was feeling when RBG passed was exactly what I felt on the morning of the election. I did not know what emotion was -- likely, as you note, sheer anxiety and dread. I have not been so despondent since Nov 2016 with such an overwhelming inability to get out of bed in the morning, despite the outlandish parade of horrors we've been forced to witness. Thank you for saying that out loud because despite however much I believe I am healthy enough to validate my own emotions, new experiences like this make me question my own mental and emotional stability.
Your post is extremely incisive and I feel like reading it gave me the feeling of finding the word that has been at the tip of my tongue but could not verbalize. This is absolutely the end of a series of myths that I have unknowingly believed to be my reality, until 2016 poked the first hole in that dreamland. I have been living under the presumption that the GOP was answerable to democratic norms and that they would act in ways that hid their blatant disregard of the law so as not to be shunned by their base. I thought this country was different and that although Trump was dangerous, I naively kept assuming someone or something would stop him.
Which is why it is such a gut punch to see establishment Dems fail to fight on all of our behalves. They are still buying this myth and it is hard to feel that anyone actually has our backs.
Thank you again for putting this into words -- for whatever reason, it took a little bit of weight off my chest.